Description: Exploring the history and politics of a powerful and long-lasting idea: the creation and maintenance of European worlds outside of Europe. This textbook provides a broad overview of settler colonialism in the modern era. The author outlines how the founding of new societies was envisaged and practiced around the world, illustrating the specific ways […]

Abstract: Treaties have been characterized by students of settler colonialism as tools of the empire. Treaties were rarely written for the benefit of Indigenous people but served as legal means to dispossess them of land and natural resources and deprive them of their traditional hunting and fishing rights. Efforts to bring land claims and resolve […]

Abstract: Settler Colonial Studies proposes a differentiation between franchise colonialism and settler colonialism, based on Patrick Wolfe’s pioneering theories, according to which in colonialism per se the colonizer exploits colonized labour to, eventually, return to the Imperial metropolis. In settler colonialism, on the other hand, the settler, aiming at possessing the land belonging to indigenous people, “comes […]

Abstract: This review essay examines how studies of transpacific modernity take up the entanglements between settler coloniality in Latin America and Japanese imperialism to grapple with formations of racism and modes of colonial dispossession that emerge outside the traditional purview of US-centric accounts of the transpacific. In their studies, Torres-Rodríguez, Le, Chang, and the contributors […]

Abstract: Control of time is critical to the maintenance of settler colonial states. In the United States, which relies on linear conceptions of time, time is treated as moving forward, which implies a specific view of the national past. It also moves backward, which proscribes a particular understanding of future possibilities. In both cases, time […]

Abstract: Geographic scholarship on landscape and colonialism has not substantially engaged with the specific logics of settler colonialism, propelling recent calls to “unlearn” and “decolonize” landscape studies. This article highlights the Indigenous cultural landscape (ICL), a policy tool used since the 1990s to protect aboriginal landscapes globally, as a vital resource for geographers interested in […]

Abstract: Rowland Hill’s 1837 Post Office Reform is credited with influencing Britain’s Postage Act of 1839 which introduced uniform, low pricing and prepayment of mail. These reforms then influenced the 1874 Treaty of Bern. Post Office Reform was written while Hill served as the South Australian Colonization Commission’s secretary. Studying this context, we gain new […]

Abstract: In the current global landscape, characterized by religious fervour, social and political unrest, economic instability, and environmental challenges, spiritual leaders stand as pivotal agents of change. Their role is especially crucial in contexts marred by ingrained injustices and persistent conflicts, such as the Palestinian–Israeli settler colonial context—a reality I have been intimately involved with […]

Abstract: How can a posthumanist conceptualization of landscape, one that embraces temporality and practice, help us to better understand contemporary settler colonialism? This thesis explores this proposition through its analyses of the desire of the Israeli state to ‘settle’ the Naqab. The Naqab, an area located in the south of modern-day Israel and within its […]

Abstract: Malek Rasamny and Matt Peterson’s 2018 documentary Spaces of Exception explores the histories and political commonalities found between Indigenous and Palestinian communities in North America and South-West Asian refugee camps, respectively. Building on the theory of inter/nationalism developed by Steven Salaita (Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016), as well as […]